In about a week and a half I will be in the air to the other side of the world for an ordeal [the word originally meant "trial"] desuigned to see if I am competetent to do what I have spent my professional life doing. In three weeks I should be back, exhausted. Successful? Profited?

I and Herself and Number One Son will need all the prayer we can get.

The truth, the stark naked truth, the truth without so much as a loincloth on, should surely be the investigator's sole aim - Basil Chamberlain